Swisscows

Swisscows is a web search engine launched in 2014, a project of Hulbee AG, a company based in Egnach, Switzerland.[1][2] It uses semantic data recognition that gives faster answers to queries and claims to not store users' data.[3][4][5] Swisscows also deems itself family-friendly, with explicit results entirely omitted.[3][6][7] The engine's servers are based in underground data centers under the Swiss Alps, and geographically outside of EU and US.[8]

Swisscows
Type of site
Web search engine
Available inMultilingual
OwnerHulbee AG
Created byAndreas Wiebe
URLwww.swisscows.com
LaunchedJune 26, 2014 (2014-06-26)
Current statusOnline

Swisscows uses Bing for web search, but has also built its own index for the German language edition.[9][7] It also has shopping search, music search (powered by SoundCloud), and a language translator powered by Yandex.

History

Swisscows was founded in 2014 by Andreas Wiebe.[7]

As of 2018, there were 20 million monthly search queries, according to Hulbee CEO, Andreas Wiebe.[10]

In January 2021, the company launched TeleGuard, a messaging app that intends to focus on privacy and data protection.[11]

See also

References
  1. "Imprint - Swisscows". swisscows.ch.
  2. "Swiss search engine jumps for moon". Le News. September 2, 2014.
  3. Kaye, Jason. "You mean there are other options?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  4. "Swiss software company Hulbee AG launches smart and secure search engine Startupticker.ch | The Swiss Startup News channel". www.startupticker.ch.
  5. "On practicing safe search: fine tuning, privacy-friendly searches, and learning more — @joycevalenza NeverEndingSearch". blogs.slj.com.
  6. "Avoid Google and Bing: 7 Alternative Search Engines That Value Privacy". MakeUseOf. 9 July 2018.
  7. "Internet search services: Europe's quest for online privacy | DW | 04.08.2020". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  8. "Datacenter - Swisscows". swisscows.ch.
  9. "European Davids vs Goliath: Privacy search engines aim to challenge Google | Financial Post". November 21, 2018.
  10. "European privacy search engines aim to challenge Google". AP NEWS. November 22, 2018.
  11. "Instant Messenger Teleguard ohne persönliche Angaben nutzbar". itmagazine.ch. January 20, 2021.
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